Redressing the balanceZita Dresner Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1988 - 454 pages |
Contents
Anne Bradstreet | 3 |
Mercy Otis Warren | 11 |
Judith Sargent Murray | 18 |
Tabitha Gilman Tenney | 27 |
Mrs Mary Clavers Caroline Matilda Stansbury Kirkland | 39 |
Fanny Fern Sara Willis Parton | 46 |
Ann Stephens | 51 |
Phoebe Cary | 62 |
Helen Rowland | 251 |
Dorothy Parker | 257 |
Cornelia Otis Skinner | 271 |
Betty MacDonald Anne Elizabeth Campbell Bard | 279 |
Phyllis McGinley | 300 |
Gwendolyn Brooks | 309 |
Shirley Jackson | 315 |
Margaret Halsey | 326 |
Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher | 68 |
Emily Dickinson | 82 |
Josiah Allens Wife Marietta Holley | 98 |
Gail Hamilton Mary Abigail Dodge | 107 |
Louisa May Alcott | 115 |
Carolyn Wells | 133 |
Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon | 139 |
Gertrude Stein | 163 |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman | 169 |
Mary Roberts Rinehart | 176 |
Alice Duer Miller | 202 |
Nancy Boyd Edna St Vincent Millay | 221 |
Anita Loos | 228 |
Florence Guy Seabury | 234 |
Zora Neale Hurston | 244 |
Peg Bracken | 332 |
Jean Kerr | 340 |
Felicia Lamport | 353 |
Judith Viorst | 373 |
Nora Ephron | 381 |
Rita Mae Brown | 391 |
Toni Cade Bambara | 400 |
Nikki Giovanni | 407 |
Cyra McFadden | 416 |
Fran Lebowitz | 423 |
Ellen Goodman | 433 |
Paula Gunn Allen | 443 |
Selected Bibliography | 449 |
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Redressing the Balance: American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times ... Nancy A. Walker,Zita Dresner No preview available - 1988 |
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